As an urban anthropologist and urban studies scholar I am interested in understanding how the ‘cities of the living’ find new forms of co-existence with the ‘cities of the dead’; how deathscapes can potentially be or become formative sites of conviviality for the city at large.

Klaufus, C. (2026) Life and Death in Latin American Cities: The Necropolis at Stake, Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Klaufus, C. (2023) ‘Informal deathscapes in metropolitan Lima as cultural knowledge systems’, in D. House and M. Westendorp with A. Maddrell (Eds) New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes: Continuity, Change, and Contestation, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 21-41.

Klaufus, C. (2020) ‘Safeguarding the house of the dead: Configurations of risk and protection in the urban cemetery’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45:6, 1056-1063.